Antedating of "Ecology"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Note that Google Books frequently misdates its documents, and has a particular unfortunate tendency to date serials by the beginning date of the serial rather than the date of the actual issue being shown.  This citation appears actually to be from about 1903, not 1859.

Fred Shapiro



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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> ecology (OED 1876)
>
>
>
> 1875 _Academy_ 18 Sept. 309 (ProQuest)  Seeing that the scope of Botany
> dif=
> fers from that of Zoology only in the fact that the one deals with
> plants, the other with animals, we might expect that physiology,
> morphology, oecology, and taxonomy in each would have assumed about the
> same relative importance to one another.
>

books.google.com/books?id=5EFPAAAAIAAJ
State horticultural society of Missouri - ‎Snippet view
Annual report - 1859 - Page 144
years past anatomy has had precedence over physiology and Oecology.


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